Re: RC: rails to trails

[Nancy DuPont <Htrails@Earthlink.net>]

>Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 22:10:09 -0800
>To: dpfreed@webtv.net (David Freed)
>From: Nancy DuPont <Htrails@Earthlink.net>
>Subject: Re: RC:  rails to trails
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At 08:40 AM 3/31/99 -0800, you wrote:
>>Goodmorning.    Connie and anyone else knowledgeable about trails...is
>>"Rails to Trails" a good cause for horse trails?   TIA  jan freed
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>Connie Berto and I went to Washington DC and visited with Rails To Trails.
They are a powerful organization of people who work to turn old railroad
tracks into trails. Railways are public land and must be kept that way if we
can prove they are still valid useable corridors for public use.  If proven
that they are not, they can be broken up in parcels and sold to the highest
bidder and the railroad owner, such as Southern Pacific gets the money.  We
then lose the golden opportunity to have a recreational corridor! The
important thing to consider, if we horsepeople put enough pressure on this
group - than they include horses as a user group.  If, like the Katy Trail
in Kansas, the horse people are weak in presence, they lose it to bicycles
and other trail users.  The president of the organization is David Burwell,
he goes back to the founding days of the National Trails System.  The
president of Our organization, Heritage Trails is George Cardinet, he was
one of the founders of the American Trails with David Burwell.  Another
influential person in R to T is Mary Ann Fowler.  They have been given the
contract by the government to be the deciding committee as to which trails
will be named the 12 millenium trails in the U.S. We have applied for this
recognition for the Juan Bautista De Anza Trail which goes from Mexico to
San Francisco. I have ridden all 1500 miles of it on my Arabian horse,
Seeqo. I hope this is more than you need to know about the question.  Short
answer - get involved or lose the trails!
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